The controversial detective made the shocking claims on Aussie TV show Sunday Night, which looked into the unsolved disappearance and suggested Madeleine’s body could be hidden in a well on Praia da Luz.

Goncalo Amaral claimed MI5 and Gordon Brown organised a cover-up

Amaral suggested MI5 "for sure had an involvement", either by helping to hide Maddie's body or covering up the alleged crime.

When informed of Amaral's latest conspiracy theory by a journalist who suggested he also thinks Gordon Brown was involved, Gerry McCann said: "The less said about Goncalo Amaral the better."

Professor Dave Barclay: I think the Portuguese police and tourist board would have been quite keen not to feature the number of burglaries in the Algarve, and the fact there were random paedophiles snatching children from their beds would have been a disincentive for families to go there, so I think that's possibly an explanation as to how the Met recently found more evidence of children being snatched.

Let's not forget, antis denied for years that holidaying children had been assaulted in their beds - unthinkable, in the earthly paradise that is PDL!

Then the truth came out, thanks to the PJ. Not only had children been attacked, the PJ had DNA from at least one of the attackers. Something else Amaral 'forgot' to mention.

Comment from another forum with thanks.Like when she was mouthing off about 'suing' Amazon and the McCanns?Why does she imagine she's been defamed? It's no-one's fault but her own that she ran her mouth off on telly and made an idiot of herself - again.Nobody has forgetten her getting the boot from Fox, live, on air.

The US criminal profiler featured on Channel 7's Madeleine McCann documentary is threatening legal action to sue journalist Rahni Sadler and Seven West Media.

Crime expert Pat Brown said she was "absolutely appalled" at how the Sunday Night show was edited to produce a one-sided pro-McCann view, and claimed she had been set up to be humiliated by Sadler.

A former Scotland Yard detective who also featured in the documentary told Nine.com.au his analysis of Maddie's disappearance had been heavily distorted and that he would never work with Seven again.

The episode promised "major new developments", but ultimately failed to deliver on the much-hyped bombshell lead that would break the almost decade-long cold case open.

Washington DC-based Brown told Nine.com.au that Sadler interviewed her exhaustively for an hour but only used fractional snippets that could ultimately make her a target for legal action from the McCanns.

"They edited it poorly. They edited it exactly the way they wanted to make me look - which was an idiot," Brown said.

Brown said Sadler "interrogated" her at length about the physical, circumstantial, and behavioral evidence that supported her theories that Kate and Gerry should still be considered suspects in what happened to Madeleine.

But Brown said only one part of the interview about theories of Kate and Gerry disposing of their daughter's body made it to the screen - and that did not include any of her reasoned analysis.

"They wanted the viewers to believe I said the McCanns were guilty of a crime. Then they did not use any of the important evidence I put forward to support a theory that the McCanns may well be involved.

"They edited a number of other statements to make me look ridiculous."

One such moment in the documentary came when Sadler asked Brown how it was possible the McCanns' friends, otherwise known as the Tapas 7, could all be involved in a cover-up.

Brown told Nine.com.au her reply had been chopped, and it removed the crucial part where she said it was possible that one or two friends had helped create an alibi for the McCanns.

Jane Tanner, a friend who was holidaying in Praia da Luz with the McCanns, was critical in driving the theory Madeleine was abducted after allegedly seeing a man carrying a child near apartment 5A.

But Portuguese police have always harboured doubts over the validity of Tanner's statements, which changed several times as the investigation got underway.

"Everything that I was trying to explain was eliminated in the final production," Brown said.

The documentary suggested Brown's book had been dropped by retailing giant Amazon because of its speculative content which theorised Kate and Gerry may have hidden Maddie's body after an accidental death in the holiday apartment.

The reality, according to documents seen by Nine.com.au, was that Amazon was threatened by Carter-Ruck, the notorious London libel firm long employed by the McCanns to shut down negative headlines.

Brown said she had made numerous appearances on major US TV networks over a 15-year career and had never wanted to sue – until now.

US-based attorney Brian Close, who is representing Brown, said he has identified defamation, intentional misrepresentation and false light as grounds for legal action against Sadler and Seven West Media.

Former London Met homicide detective Colin Sutton was also angered at the way his commentary had been manipulated in the edit suite.

He told Nine.com.au the misrepresentations were "unfair, unethical and represents the sort of journalism with which I do not wish to be associated."

Nine.com.au has contacted Seven West Media for a statement but have not had comment at the time of publishing.

'THEY ANNIHILATED ME'. Madeleine McCann crime expert who told doc her parents Gerry and Kate may have hidden body plans to sue show for twisting her comments.

Criminal profiler says her views on Maddie's disappearance were misrepresented.

A CRIME expert who told an explosive documentary that Kate and Gerry McCann could have hidden their daughter Madeleine’s body plans to SUE the Aussie TV channel which ran the show.

US criminal profiler Pat Brown featured on Channel 7’s Sunday Night show claiming the McCanns could have put Maddie’s body in a bag, hid it at the beach and moved it weeks later.

But the expert – who told the show there was a possibility Madeleine had been killed as the result of an accident, neglect or abuse – now plans to sue for defamation as although she said it was possible, she never said the McCanns did it.

Pat claims in her original hour-long Skype interview with journalist Rahni Sadler that she made it clear this was only a theory based on her view of the evidence available.

Pat, who said she has received hate mail since the show aired, revealed: “I thought whether people agreed with the evidence or not, I would be able to present this as a professional.

“I never stated the McCanns were guilty of anything other than neglecting their children, and I will stand by that.

“I never said the McCanns are guilty of covering up the death of their child or moving their child’s body.

“The show purposefully set out to destroy my reputation. The only reason I was featured was to annihilate me by making me look foolish.”

Pat’s lawyer Brian Close said he had identified multiple misrepresentation, false light and defamation claims against Seven West Media and Rahni Sadler.

He said: “The misleading edits portray Pat Brown in a false light by contorting her statements and changing their substance, and the broadcasts and publications have done and continue to do damage to Ms Brown’s professional reputation wherever they are viewed around the world."

Seven News Media, which runs the channel, has been approached for comment.

On the programme, Pat said: “There are other cases where a child has come to some kind of harm by way of a parent either by neglect or abuse and the parents have indeed covered that crime up by trying to move the child’s body and claim that the child has gone missing and has been abducted.”

And in a trailer for the show, she was quoted as saying: "They are lying and they are concealing guilt".

The programme also aired claims from ex-top cop Goncalo Amaral, the original lead investigator into Madeleine’s disappearance.

He alleged that MI5, Gordon Brown and the British Government could have helped the McCanns cover up Maddie's death.

Other theories discussed by experts included that Madeleine could have been run over by a drink-driver who left her body in one of the area’s 600 secluded wells or that she had been stolen by a human trafficking gang "working to order".

The show also claimed Scotland Yard were chasing a new lead on an employee working within the holiday complex at the time of Maddie’s disappearance.

In response to some of Sunday Night’s allegations, Gerry McCann told the programme: “How could we have disposed of or hidden her body? It’s just nonsense.

Would it really be possible for one of the McCanns to cart the body of their daughter back to England? Yes, absolutely. Because of the climate in Portugal, it is possible that should they have buried Maddy in a shallow grave in a sandy substrate, her body would have mummified. Mummification is a desiccation of the corpse where the fluids drain into the ground and the rest of the body dries up. There is relatively little odor associated with a mummified body.

If this occurred, the body would be easier to transport; it would be lighter and drier and lacking the horrible smell of a corpse. Such a body could easily be placed in a sealed bag and placed in a suitcase. Screening of stowed luggage is not likely to uncover a body inside of a suitcase and when the traveler reaches the other end and goes through customs, they enter the "Have nothing to declare line," and just walk through (unless they exhibit concerning behavior that raises a red flag and launches a search of the luggage). As to the McCanns, I seriously doubt they were searched upon arrival, not with all the press surrounding them and the mass of curious onlookers, reporters, and VIPS lurking about.

To elaborate for those who do not know what the bushmeat connection is the name is used for wildmeat, or game meat from non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food in tropical forests. Commercial harvesting and the trade of wildlife is considered a threat to biodiversity. In the past it has been smuggled through various airports in the UK. Her idea was that the parents used the 'bushmeat trick' to get the corpse into the UK. Sykes

Oh, not running the country, then?Or negotiating Brexit?Or fighting a general election?No, that nutjob obsessive thinks the PM has nothing to do except plot evil plots with a pair of middle-class NHS doctors.

Actually she is campaigning in Wales for the upcoming General Election. Sykes

“I never stated the McCanns were guilty of anything other than neglecting their children, and I will stand by that.

“I never said the McCanns are guilty of covering up the death of their child or moving their child’s body.

Yes, she did - she has done so repeatedly, as anyone that can use google can see for themselves.

In her latest bog, she states:

There can only be ONE reason; Gerry does NOT have a solid alibi for the time of the Smith sighting and Gerry most likely IS the person carrying a little girl toward the beach at the time the Smiths saw the man in the street.

Does she not understand what words mean? She's repeatedly accused the McCanns of heinous crimes - including smuggling his daughter's desiccated corpse through British customs.

The internet doesn't do 'forgetting', and she's making herself look not just foolish, but downright deranged, without any help from other people. If she goes ahead with her threat of legal action, she will be destroyed in court. By her own words.